Word: hemoglobin
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With Conant, Pappenheimer had developed an improved method for measuring the oxidation potentials of hemoglobin. In addition, he had conducted research on cytochromes, iron-containing enzymes which are closely related to hemoglobin. Cytochromes fulfill an important function in the oxidative processes of metabolism in many organisms. Since diphtherial cytochrome is probably a derivative of coproporphyrin, the dual inhibiting effect of iron suggested that the toxin operates by "impersonating" cytochrome...
...have no time for such things as Winter Comps. I must construct ontological systems; I must synthesize ethyl alcohol from hemoglobin; I must proselytize the novels of Jane Austen...